Michaela comes 3rd on her pro debut at the end of April 2016. The moment and feeling when they call your number for first callout, she says afterwards. Indescribable emotion. She leaves the contest convinced the pro stage is "right where I belong", but despite her success, what makes Michaela Michaela is her sheer relentlessness. The debut is over, she writes. But the pursuit continues.
She has a month before her next show in Toronto, and almost everything she posts during that month is absolute freaky gold. It's been hard to pick just a few, but I had to include the not-long-after-contest hammies - "pursuing details" is Michaela's only explanation for mooning her entire IG following. The best photo you've ever posted, writes one of them (a bodybuilder chap). I show this to everyone.
All those fish meals have really been paying off... and by fish I mean sushi, says Michaela. Apparently the theory is that sushi thins the skin. Well, based on the evidence we have here, I would have no argument with that theory at all. One of those photos you can't get out of your head long after you have actually stopped looking at it. What must they feel like to touch? What must they feel like to have?
And I also couldn't leave this one out. One of FMS' Images of 2016. We titled this "What the Photographer Saw" when we chose it as one of our "perfect" pictures back in August, we said back before New Year. This photographer/workout buddy of hers must see Michaela pretty much every day, you might expect the shock and awe of Michaela, all muscle and veins, not to be quite so great for her. However...
It was taken about a week before Michaela won her first pro title at the Toronto Pro.
With it came the much-coveted Olympia qualification - at the age of 21. Blessed to be apart of the IFBB and stand amongst the best physiques in the world, she said.
Cue a new slew of new freakery. And zero days off.
First order of business after stepping off stage yesterday, revealed Michaela. Leg training. 15 weeks out. And also while she prepped for the Olympia, Michaela started up her own PT business. I've truly found a liking in helping individuals and seeing their progress, she said. I am very eager to keep this going and help anyone that is willing to put in the effort! Yeah, wondering how Michaela defines "effort"...
Beginning of July, a good 8 weeks out, and Michaela is already looking ridiculous.
Fast forward to the start of September, and despite the picture being about the scales and what they reveal ("for the oh so curious," she says), there's no hiding those quads.
Surely her legs can't look any freakier than that, you might be thinking. A reasonable assumption it is, but as Michaela was waiting to board the plane to Las Vegas, this (above) is how she passed the time. Not since the vascular pomp of Lisa Giesbrecht maybe five, six years ago have we seen anything quite like this. Jaw to the floor stuff.
And if you are curious about the rest of her legs...
Despite all this freakery though, Michaela failed to make the placings at the Olympia. She was in good company - Anne Freitas, Branka Njegovec, Erica Blockman, and ten more of the finest female physiques on the planet also finished outside the top 15 - but for the first time in her career, a contest didn't go as well as she had hoped.
However, being Michaela, there was no hint of disappointment, rather an embrace of the challenge she now faced. I have a lot to work on from the smallest of details to the biggest, she said afterwards. And I can't wait to show up on a stage next time with a completely renewed physique, performance, and maturity as an athlete.
I love this part, she added.
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